Journey to Excellence

2012 End of the Year

Councils

Final scores for 2012 will be determined on January 31, 2013.

  • Finance measures will be based upon the closing transmittal for December. Audit adjustments transmitted during January will be included. Any council that has not closed its books by January 31 will not receive points for the finance criteria. Note: PeopleSoft councils must following instructions for closing transmittal.
  • Membership measures, as well as commissioner service, district leadership, and unit leadership will be determined upon the membership closing date for December.
  • Advancements will be measured based upon the date they are entered in the system. Those entered in January after the closing of the year will be counted for 2013, even if their effective date was 2012.
  • Unit visitations and service hours will be counted when they are entered in the system. Like advancements, any entered in January will be counted for 2013.
  • Camping numbers for 2012 reflect the reports from each council. They include the number of campers from the council attending any camp. They do not include out-of-council campers attending your camps.
  • Youth-Serving executive ratio to total available youth will be determined when a final report is received in January. The count of youth-serving executives is not based upon the December number alone, but the modal average, which is the typical count during the year.
  • Council leadership accomplishments will be based upon reports received by the Mission Impact Team by January 7th.

Districts

Councils will determine the final scores for their districts. It will be necessary to gather reports from various sources. It is suggested that districts use the JTE District Workbook to record and track this information. Here are some reports that will be needed:

  • Objectives Progress Reports from ScoutNET, including total available youth.
  • Retention rate and trained leader reports from MyBSA.
  • Locally developed reports tracking unit performance, finance, camping, district leadership, nominating process, district committee meetings, and chartered organization visits.
  • Reports for advancements and unit visitations showing the totals for each district will be distributed to each council by the middle of January.

Until a district dashboard is available, the JTE District Workbook and instructions are available on the JTE support site at http://scouting.org/JTE.aspx. Both 2012 and 2013 versions can be downloaded.